Year-End Menu

The Year-End menu contains commands used to process the Year-End procedure for the General Ledger.

Tip:  For information about the sequence of running the Year-End programs, refer to the General Ledger Runbook.

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Year-End Menu Items

Move Current Year Balances to History

Copies the balances from the current Chart of Accounts to the history file for the specified fiscal year.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [y] [s]

Clear and Close Accounts

Clears revenue and expense accounts to the Clear To Accounts specified for retained earnings.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [y] [c]

Year-End Journal Listing

Prints year-end journal entry transactions for the closing period.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [y] [p]

Post Closing Entries

Updates the Account Period Balances from the journal entry transactions created by the Clear and Close Accounts routine for the closing period.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [y] [l]

Initialize Journal Periods

Clears all transactions for a string of Periods and copies the transactions to history.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [y] [i]

Update Master Accounts

Rolls the calculated account ending balances from the closing fiscal year into the beginning balances of the new fiscal year.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [y] [u]

Year End Adjustments Menu

Displays the menu for processing adjusting entries.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [y] [a]

Adjustments Processing

Enter and post year-end adjusting entries to period 14 and to the General Ledger accounts.

Reset Account Masters

Transfers the GL Accounts from the prior year to the Historical GL Accounts in the current year.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [y] [r]

 

Other Year-End Topics